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Jaskirat Sidhu of Calgary is charged with dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing bodily injury stemming from the crash at a rural Saskatchewan intersection as the team was heading to a playoff game in Nipawin on April 6th.

The crash north of Tisdale claimed the lives of 16 players and team staff, and left all 13 others aboard the bus injured — two of whom were paralyzed and two received serious brain injuries.

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R-C-M-P have arrested 14 people at a blockade on a forest service road near Houston, in northern B-C that is preventing access to the Coastal GasLink L-N-G pipeline project.

Police say yesterday afternoon’s arrests of some members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation were for various offences, including alleged violations of a December court injunction against the blockade.

They allege officers saw a number of fires being lit along the roadway.

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A goal to get at least a half-million electric cars on Canada’s roads by the end of 2018 appears to have stalled.

The 2009 Electric Vehicle Technology Road Map for Canada, produced by a panel of experts in part for the Department of Natural Resources, aimed for 500-thousand cars by the end of the year.

But sales tracker FleetCarma suggests that by the end of 2018, the actual number was fewer than 100-thousand.

The report warned the electric-vehicle train was already leaving the station and Canada wasn’t on it.

The Trudeau Liberals in 2016 promised a national strategy for electric vehicles by the end of last year, but hasn’t yet delivered.

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With no breakthrough in sight, U-S President Donald Trump is set to argue in a prime-time address that a “crisis” at the U-S-Mexico border requires the wall for which he’s demanding over five-billion-dollars in funding before ending the partial government shutdown.

Trump’s speech tonight will be followed by his visit Thursday to the southern border.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted that he will use the visit to “meet with those on the front lines of the national security and humanitarian crisis.”